| 单词 | hairy goat |
| 释义 | > as lemmashairy goat hairy goat n. colloquial (Australian and New Zealand) a racehorse which performs badly or is considered to be slow or useless; cf. goat n. 7. ΚΠ 1894 Quiz & Lantern (Adelaide) 13 Sept. 7/1 Oh! how the crowd roared when they saw the equine go to the starting post... ‘What are yer doin' with that there hairy goat?’ 1908 Referee (Sydney) 27 May 12/2 The ‘hairy goat’ had saved the fur-coated ‘bookies’. 1964 R. H. Morrieson Came Hot Friday vi. 69 Windsor Knot! What a hairy goat! What a divvy! 1984 W. W. Ammon Footpr. in Dusk vi, in W. W. Ammon et al. Working Lives 89 That thing! That hairy goat beat my beautiful little pony? Never in a month of bloody Sundays! 2011 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 10 June (Sport section) 64 Trainer Peter Moody has conceded Turnitup will look more like a ‘hairy goat’ than a serious contender for the Channel 7 Queensland Derby tomorrow. < as lemmas |
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